crdrummond

Your inside knowledge has just replied to Dect with the reply you hoped for! (11.58.24)

Edited by kitcat (Mon 08-Mar-21 17:10:07)

Ok so you can get fibre broadband, a variant called FTTC, based on the screenshot of your BT wholesale checker.

This will show on ISPs as 7 or 8Mbps as a “minimum guaranteed” speed but the checker estimates anything from 8Mbps to 15.6Mbps.

Have you currently got fibre broadband? or are you on ADSL?

I had interpreted it as you can’t get anything other than ADSL.

In terms of FTTP, openreach may cover you if they’re doing all areas locally, but there’s no obligation. Others here have advised it seems to be promising.

Are you using a master socket? Who is your ISP?
Have you checked your line stats?

I’m confused why you are asking your ISP to install a new line when your existing one shows as FTTC available already. Any decent ISP should be able to get you onto the FTTC 8 to 15.6 Mbps.

In reply to a post by kitcat:

11.58.24

And there was me wondering who you could be referring too

In reply to a post by crdrummond:

If it turns out that we are, last thing I want to do is place an order for FTTC (which is my only option right know, though I know it is terrible) and then be stuck in a contract for 12-24 months.

If it was me I would go for an ISP who will allow you to upgrade to FTTP during the contract term. You may want to make that one of your questions should you contact any ISPs.

Edited by deleted (Mon 08-Mar-21 17:55:29)

So we have a new build - and currently no cabling at all has been installed. So we have no current phone line, broadband or ISP.
I think the develop should have don’t something that was more than nothing, but they didn’t!

Oh, great, thank you!

In reply to a post by crdrummond:

So we have a new build - and currently no cabling at all has been installed. So we have no current phone line, broadband or ISP.
I think the develop should have don’t something that was more than nothing, but they didn’t!

So you take a service with eg BT Broadband for FTTC. If you get fibre to the cabinet, you can usually upgrade by entering a new contract term.

sorry I meant to say, take a service with a provider e.g. BT... If full fibre arrives, you can upgrade. I have changed my contract whilst in contract with BT several times, you just need to "upgrade" and not "downgrade." There is also a new contract term.

I suspect some smaller ISPs may be a challenge, but mass market it's not a case of "take a package and you are stuck with it." ISPs want to get the higher charge for a better package.

In reply to a post by crdrummond:

So we have a new build - and currently no cabling at all has been installed. So we have no current phone line, broadband or ISP.

That's normal.
The final drop from the pole or footway box isn't made until you order a service.

I think the develop should have don’t something that was more than nothing, but they didn’t!

That's an assumption. I'm not so sure the developer did nothing.

Usually when a developer of 4 homes contacts OpenReach's new site team they get a quote on how much FTTP will cost. Alternatively they can take copper for free.

As your street has a full fibre rollout about to start things will have been a little different.

If the developer had contacted the OpenReach new site team they may well have been told there's an ongoing rollout in that street and the properties will be added to the rollout free of charge.

In an likelihood it would not have been possible for the developer to pay and have FTTP installed before the rest of the street got FTTP (before you moved in).

The fact these new builds are showing on the OpenReach checker as being part of a full fibre build plan suggests to me the developer has indeed been in touch with OpenReach.
Without the developer contacting OpenReach the chances are the new builds wouldn't be in these plans.

Post deleted by witchunt

Edited by witchunt (Tue 09-Mar-21 16:06:24)